In order to recruit a sufficient number of eligible patients, in each hospital a competent hospital employee will identify the source population weekly from the computerized patient record system.
In 2002, the European Commission launched the European Migrant Friendly Hospital (MFH) Initiative, which fosters collaborations between hospitals, experts and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in twelve European countries to develop migrant-friendly, culturally competent hospital care [ 4].
It's an arbitrary and haphazard system, and I'm just lucky to live in a city with a highly competent and generous hospital like Swedish.
The sound is at once terrible to the ear — like a nose breaking or a girlfriend sobbing — and clean and competent: at this hospital in Dillon, Tex., the E.M.T.'s evidently know how to steady a bone saw to split open a helmet, carefully but unsentimentally, so as not to exacerbate a skull fracture or a spine injury.
Though well intentioned, the N.G.O.'s end up taking competent professionals away from hospitals and clinics, where they can treat patients, into offices, where patients exist only on paper.
The trial of two allies of the New York City comptroller, John C. Liu, will start on April 15, a judge said Friday after ruling that one defendant, now in the hospital, was competent to stand trial.
A survey of acute care patients found that patients believe they should be able to trust that they are being provided with safe, competent care whilst in hospital, rather than take on an active role in ensuring their safety [ 53].
People should rightly demand timely deliverance of competent medical care from the hospitals and health centers that serve them [ 38- 42].
Key opportunities would focus on a strong national policy response to diabetes and other NCDs, a strong network of competent health care workers and hospitals, budget support from both public and private sectors, and scientific and technical support from academics and researchers.
But he was sent back to Rikers on Nov. 13, after the hospital deemed him competent.
He was sent to Rikers in November after the hospital deemed him competent.
